Means for securing documents for postal or like transmission.



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PATENTBDYMAY 24, 1904,

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UNITED STATEs Patented May 24, 1904.

PATENT 'OFFIcE. I

GEORGE J OHNv VICTOR GOLD, OF LONDON, AND LAURENCE SOHWABE,

' OF HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, ENGLAND.

MEANS FOR SECURING DOCUMENTS FOR POSTAL 0R LIKE TRANSMISSION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 760,687, dated May 24, 1904.

Application filed June 23, 1902. Serial No. 112,892. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE J OHN VIO- TOR GOLD, traveler, residing at 15 Mentone road, Highbury Park, London, and LAURENCE ScHwABn, stationer, residing at Rolph House, Hemel Hempstead, in the county of Hertford, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Securing Documents for Postal or Like Transmission, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in means for securing documents for postal or like transmission, and has for its object the temporary inclosure of the subject-matter .of the document, the address portion only being visible when closed, but forming an essential part of said document when open.

In order that our invention may be clearly understood, we have appended the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a strip of the proposed attachment; Fig. 2, an exaggerated end view thereof, and Fig. 3 a similar view showing the fastening closed. Fig. 4 is a perspective' view of a mailing-sheet provided with our improved attachment.

In carrylng our mvention into effect we take a folded strip of tape or like fabric O and insert between the edges a strip of pliable metal B, securing the same between the edges of O by stitching at e. The tape may be subsequently glued or otherwise attached to the edge of a piece of paper,parchment, or the like, D, asat f, Fig. 2. The two edges of D to be temporarily attached are shown by Fig. 3, secured by bending or closing the strip B of pliable metal over the free edge, as shown.

The combined strip of fabric and pliable metal may be of the same width as the paper edge to be closed or may be cut into one or more strips, as A A A, Fig. 1, and glued or other- ;j vise attached, as by eyelets, as shown by g,

The strip of paper D is shown folded into sections a, b, 0, and d, Fig. 4, and may or may not be perforated at p. The name and address of the person to whom the document is sent are written upon Z), and the continuation presented by the under surface of c and upper surface of d may contain a circular of private trade terms or like subject-matter not necessarily accessible to the public, but open at the will of. the transmitters. After delivery the superfluous cover may be torn off at 19.

As clearly shown on the drawings, the folded fabric O extends over one edge only of the the metal strip B uncovered to expose its.

bright metallic surface to view and serve as a means for suggesting the proper method for opening the mail-matter to one unfamiliar with this fastening device. The connecting medium between the pliable metal strip and the folded paper is not necessarily limited to a Woven fabric; but other materials to which the cement will hold, such as paper, may be employed, and the term fabric as here used is intended to comprehend such materials.

Having now particularly described and as-.

certained the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim-is 1. As an article of manufacture, a paperfastener comprising a piece of fabric, a strip of pliable metal, and a direct fastening connection uniting the metal strip to the fabric.

2. As an article of manufacture, a paperfastener comprising a strip of pliable metal, a piece of fabric folded over one edge of the strip of metal and leaving the other edge thereof exposed, and a direct fastening connection extending through the folded fabric and also through the interposed portion of the metal strip.

3. In a paper-fastening device, the combi- I In witness whereof we have hereunto set our nation with a sheet of paper or the like, of a hands in the presence of two witnesses. strip of pliable metal, astrip of fabric folded GEORGE JOHN VICTOR GOLD. over one edge of the strip of metal and stitched LAURENCE SOIIWABE. 5 thereto, leaving the other edge of said strip Witnesses:

of metal exposed, and means for securing the PERCY E. MATTOCKS, fabric to said sheet of paper or the like. WM. 0. BROWN. 

